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(No Model.) A. BROGKWAY.

FRUIT BLEAGHER.

No. 287,224. Patented'Oot. 23, 1883.

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ANNA BROOKVAY, OF IN GALLS CROSSING, NEW YORK.

FRUiTfBLEACHER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No; 287,224, dated October 23, 1883.

Application filed July 527. 1883.

(No model.)

operation thereof is rendered more convenient and effective, all asV hereinafter more fully expl ained, and specifically set forth in the claims.

In the annexed drawings, Figure l is an isometric viewrof my improved fruit-bleacher. Figs. 2 and 3 are horizontal transverse sections, respectively on line w x and y y, Fig. 1. Fig. L is a detached isometric view of the hopper, and Fig. 5 is a vertical section of the feedchute and hopper.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding. parts.

A represents the case of the bleacher, provided onthe bottom of its interior with a slide, s, on which are seated two receptacles, rr, for the sulphur which in the process of bleaching is burned in said receptacles, to emit the fumes required for bleaching the fruit deposited in the drawers D D, constructed and arranged in the case, as hereinafter described.

Ports hh in the bottom of the case admit the requisite air, and exits ZZ are applied to the top ofthe case, to .allow the fumes` to escape after performing their functions on the fruit in the case.

rlhe aforesaid slide s is of a length which allows it to be completely inclosed in the case. The two ends of the latter are each provided with a door, d, which allows the slide to be drawn out of the case sufficiently to obtain access to the receptacle r on one end of the slide, for replenishing the same when required, thus obviating the necessity of reaching into the case, and therefore greatly facilitating the operation. Said slide moves between parallel ways b b, fixed to the case, and at about midway the length of said ways are two guards,

e e, attached to the case at opposite edges of e slide and projecting over the latter. These g guards serve two functions-viz., to hold down the inner end of the slide when drawn out of the case, and to arrest at the proper time the movement of the slide, which latter is effected by the encounter of the guards with cross-cleats c on the ends of the slide, which cleats also serve to afford a hold on the slide for drawing the same out of the case.

height of the case, are two drawers, D D, arranged side by side,` and supported on horizontal cleats on the interior of the case in the usual manner, the bottom of the drawers being perforated or reticulated, usually formed of wire-netting, to allow the fumes to readily ascend through the drawers in which the fruit to be bleached is placed.

part of the outer wall of the case when closed; but this arrangement not only caused more or less leakage of the fumes through the joints around the outer end of the drawer, but also whenever it was desired to,V obtain access to the contents of. the drawer for leveling the same or other purposes. ToV obviate these d'eso as to come completely inside of the case, and the front of the latter I provide with an moved when required, and is extended above the top of the drawer sufficiently to afford the necessary access thereto without disturbing the drawer in its position.

A door, C, is fitted closely to the opening B, and completely incloses the drawer in the case.

E E are two chutes-one over each drawerto convey thereto the fruit to be bleached, and H is a hopper removably seated on top of the chute, and adapted to be shifted from one to the other, so that when one drawer D is liilled with fruit the hopper can be removed from the chute over said drawer and applied to the chute over the other drawer, to convey thereto the fruit, while that in the lled drawer is subjected to the bleaching process. By this arrangement the operator is put on his guard to introduce the fruit into the proper drawer.

` IIeretofore the front of the drawer protruded-` through an opening in the case, and formed` opening, B, which allows the drawer to be re- Above the slide s, or about midway the necessitated a partial extraction of the drawer fects and inconveniences, I shorten the drawer IOO 2 :sensu To properly support the hopper on the chute, I provide the ends of the hopper with extensions f,l which fit closely to the ends of the chute, and are formed with an offset or shoulder, a, by which they rest on top of the chute, as illustrated in Fig. 5 of the drawings.

Having described my invention, what I claiin as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. In combination with the ease A and reticulated drawers D D, arranged side by side, as shown, the doors Z d in opposite ends of the base of the case, and the slide s, on the bottom of the case and in range with the doors dy el, and provided with fuinigant-receptacles r r, substantially as described and shown.

2. In combination with the case A, provided at opposite ends with the doors d d, the slide of two attesting witnesses, at Syracuse, in the 3o county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, this 14th day of July, 1883.

ANNA BROGKWAY. [L s.] Vitn esses: Y

F. II. Grnns, XVM. C. RAYMOND. 

